A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Fauques, (Mademoiselle de)
FAUQUES, (MADEMOISELLE DE) of Avignon, in the eighteenth Century.
Whether Mrs. Thicknesse means that she was a nun, I know not; but she says, "who for ten years had been under the cover of a veil in a monastery, in which time her good sense having pointed out the absurdities of such a life, she quitted it, and resided at Paris," where she published many ingenious works: her best. La Triomphe de l'Amitie, was written in the convent; others are, Contes de la Serrail, translated from the Turkish; La derniere des Gueres-Betes, a fable; and Abassai, an oriental romance.
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